Soldiers Besieging a Castle
ca. 1530
Medium
Pen and brown ink; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
4 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (12.4 x 19.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund and Karen B. Cohen Fund, 1995
Accession Number
1995.307
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the bustling world of 16th-century Europe, this lively pen and brown ink drawing, *Soldiers Besieging a Castle*, captures a dramatic moment of military tension. Created around 1530 by an anonymous Swiss artist, the small-scale work (just 4 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches) depicts soldiers on horseback charging toward a fortified castle, with intricate framing lines adding a sense of structure and focus. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it exemplifies the Swiss tradition of detailed, narrative sketches that bridged manuscript illumination and emerging printmaking...